Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature and its beauty.
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature and its beauty.
I learned a great many years ago
that in a fight between husband and wife,
a third party should never get between
the woman's skillet and the man's ax helve.
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by
every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap
let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges;
let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs;
let it be preached from the pulpit,
proclaimed in legislative halls,
and enforced in courts of justice.
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged
that all men will ever act correctly,
unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
I should like to know if,
taking this old Declaration of Independence,
which declares that all men are equal upon principle,
you begin making exceptions to it,
where will you stop?
If one man says it does not mean a Negro,
why not another say it does not mean some other man?
If I were to try to read,
much less answer,
all the attacks made on me,
this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
All the armies of Europe,
Asia and Africa combined,
with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)
in their military chest;
with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,
take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,
in a trial of a thousand years.